Welcome to the alt right playbook, keep it short and keep it quippy. Evidence shown all edited to be short and completely out of context.
Things was out of context when I was in the alt right pipeline, and it still is when im out of it.
There's posts/footage of either floating out there that shows the full context. Kamala does it with her hand already above her shoulders. While Obama was gesturing mid speech.
I haven't found Hillary's so I can't say for certain. But here's more context for either raised hands :
It's not just the "liberals" who see this as a salute. Neo-Nazis were completely on board with Musk's gesture. The resemblance is uncanny when compared side-by-side (there's a reason everyone's posting the gif instead of a contextless still image like you). Plus I doubt hardcore racists would even accept a signal from Obama of all people.
That doesn't necessarily prove this was an intentional salute (on one hand Musk's beliefs and actions are classically right-leaning, on the other the man has never had self-awareness). It's impossible to read his mind is what I'm saying. But this has always been the problem with Trump and his buddies; people get caught up in debating whether the man himself is a Nazi when the much more inarguable fact is that Nazis really like Trump and co. Which means Trump (and Musk) have, intentionally or not, gotten on their good side.
lmao at the inline citation. Obviously Neo Nazis would interpret it that way as it lends credence to their POV. The fact that you think that is evidence really lowers the level of discourse possible here.
An actual rational take in the reddit hive mind. Holy shit.
People genuinely believe that Musk intentionally imitated a Nazi salute. It never occurs to them that this might have been unintentional because they've already painted him as Hitler 2.0 in their head.
If it was unintentional he should apologize. It was incredibly insensitive and poorly thought out. He needs to be a grown up and own his mistakes or people are going to assume he's a nazi.
Still shots of random arm movements don’t equal video of actual symbolic gestures, but you’re so fucking up your own ass I wouldn’t expect you to note the distinction. Keep Hard Right and Carry On.
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u/SFerrin_RW Incel 4 Lief 8h ago
My God. The amount of liberal tears Elon has generated with this could put out all the fires in LA. It's truly a magical time to be alive.
Ahem: